Posts by Quandary

if you are looking for high drama that hollywood might one day package and sell, you need go no further than downtown calgary's transcanada pipelines tower at 10 o'clock this morning, when the court of appeal will convene.. .

Quandary

Thank you Barbara!

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Wow a great Calgary Herald article - "Looking for high drama..." About Hughes lawsuit

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/blood+money+injustice/1576415/story.html.

by juliet guichon, dr. ian mitchell and michael duggan, for the calgary herald.

if you are looking for high drama that hollywood might one day package and sell, you need go no further than downtown calgary's transcanada pipelines tower at 10 o'clock this morning, when the court of appeal will convene.. .

Quandary

Is there an update as to the outcome of May 8th's events?

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Calling the Borg "Mother"

by Iwonder17 in

hey all,.

i have noticed many of the elders in my hall are now calling the wtbs "mother" from the stage during their talks now.

it happens at least once per meeting.

Quandary

Over the years they have based the term "mother' applying to the "faithful slave" very loosely on Galatians 4:26: "But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother." ASV- However, Paul was saying that the Jerusalem above was his and his counterparts' mother. How they stretched it to apply to them is anybody's guess. We all know how convuluded and utterly nonsensical is their theology! Anyway, recently the CO mentioned in the elders' meeting, that we should NOT be using the term. He did not refer to a directive from the CCOJW, he just corrected one of the "yes" men in the group after he used the term in his comment.

Q

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What Gilead Taught ME

by AllTimeJeff in

they mean the leadership.

all of this is code for: one who is not ready to really study and accept how the leadership of jehovah's witnesses use the bible to their own self serving means.

but to be fair, jw's teach that most all of these characters refer to the leadership of jehovah's witnesses, the governing body.

Quandary

Thank you ATJ! Eloquently stated!

My AHA moment came about 12 years ago, I had recently been appointed an elder and was attending my first KM school which was taught mainly by our DO. During one of the sessions, he made an off the cuff comment about Freddy Franz and how the Teaching Committee had tried for many years to change the "understanding" of the 1914 generation but Freddy would not hear of it! They had to wait until he died to change the understanding, which, as of this year has changed again! I remember thinking to myself, this whole FDS "class" teaching is bogus, in Franz's day FDS=FF. I remember commenting to some fellow elders later that evening, as we were eating, how the comment really bothered me, our doctrine had nothing to do with God's spirit directing the proper understanding, it was FF's theology. We all agreed that the comment was weird, but never spoke about it again.

Thanks again for an excellent post!

Q

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The most stupid thing a sister said to me

by Newborn in

jw
friends

one of my "so called" closest sister friend in the congregation, said to me when we once had lunch that "if i was a man, i would want to have an affair with you"!!!

i just went numb...what a crazy thing to say.

i think she revealed her sick deep thoughts.

Quandary

She was probably testing the waters to see if you felt the same way and wanted to get something going. Or she could have been hoping to find someone she could be open with about this desire she had for other women without being burned at the stake. I'm sure that there are lot of witnesses both male and female in this position that have to repress who they are and have no one discuss this with without being judged a have their whole life explode in front of them.

I Q- Very well said!

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Anyone know Franz said Armagedon originally in 1974 then 75 then 76!!

by Witness 007 in

i remember a watchtower on adam and eve's creation from the late 1950's saying that 6,000 years ends in 1974!!!!

then we know in the late !960's it was 1975.....and if i'm not wrong in crisis of conscience ray said that franz's again wanted to change the date to 1976 i think...but knorr questioned him over it........anyone have this info.

it's hard to find.

Quandary

I am thoroughly convinced that Fred Franz was a real nutjob!

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Well, Well, seems the global economy is falling apart more & more

by unbaptized in

is it just me or does it seem like a major tribulation brewing?

Quandary

JWs and all other fundy apocalyptic groups with PHds in eschatology ( a little sarcasm) really need to give it a rest! They really have NO idea of what the future holds as is evidenced by the fact that ALL predictions they have made have turned out to be utterly false! Everything they preach is pure conjecture, complete speculation and nothing more! I want nothing to do with guesses anymore, give me facts, just the facts please!

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Well, Well, seems the global economy is falling apart more & more

by unbaptized in

is it just me or does it seem like a major tribulation brewing?

Quandary

Is it just me or does it seem like a major tribulation brewing?

No it's not just you-

Join the club with the Assyrians dating back to 2800 BC!!

http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm